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2. Learning materials will be more explicit in meaning so that students

can better understand them to enable them to master and achieve
learning objectives.
3. Teaching methods will be more varied, not merely verbal

communication through the utterance of words by the teacher, so
that students do not get bored and the teacher does not run out of

energy, primarily if the teacher teaches every lesson.
4. Students can do more learning activities because they do not only
listen to the teacher's description but also other activities such as

observing, demonstrating, exhibiting, etc.
In interaction activities between students and the environment, the
function of the media can be identified based on the advantages of the

media and the obstacles that may arise in the learning process. Three
advantages of media capabilities (Daryanto 2011) are as follows:
1. Fixative ability, meaning that it can capture, store, and re-display an

object or event. With this capability, objects or events can be
drawn, photographed, recorded, filmed, then stored, and when

needed, can be shown and observed as in their original state.
2. Manipulative ability, meaning that the media can re-display objects
or events with various kinds of changes (manipulation) as needed,

for example, changing their size, speed, colour, and the presentation
can also be repeated.

3. Distributive ability means the media can reach a large audience in
one simultaneous presentation, for example, TV or radio
broadcasts.

According to Ashby,(Miarso and Yusufhadi 1985) the development
of learning media has brought about four revolutions in the world of
education. The first revolution was when parents let their children study;

the second revolution occurred with the use of written language as the
main of education; the third revolution arose with the availability of print
media, which was the result of the invention of the printing technique,